October 12, 2010

AMIA Members vote on the finalist entries in AMIA’s first Short Film/Video Contest. The winners will be announced to coincide with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on October 27th, and will be screened at the AMIA Archival Screening Night on November 5, 2010 in Philadelphia.

See the entries at www.AMIAnews.com and click the button on the right hand side of the page to vote on your favorites! You’ll need your AMIA membership number (from the back of your membership card) to vote.

We’ve made the films quicker to load, too!

The challenge? To create a film or video that conveys the importance of preserving the world’s moving image heritage. The winning entries will best convey the importance of saving the world’s moving image heritage. It’s about originality, imagination and the ability to engage the audience in 180 seconds or less.

September 08, 2010

Createasphere/EXPLORE Digital Asset Management ConferenceSeptember 23-24, 2010 | The New Yorker Hotel | New York, NYThe premier event on the management of digital assets. This conference will shape the standards and explore the urgent global issues of digital asset management in the sectors of advertising, publishing, sports organizations, museums, and higher education.

The conference will feature a keynote panel discussion comprised of DAM experts from professional sports organizations including the PGA Tour, Major League Baseball, WWF, NASCAR, and others. Educational sessions and workshops will be instructed by leaders in DAM technology and will include timely topics that are appropriate for newcomers, experienced specialists, and organization leaders. http://www.createasphere.com/DAM

August 12, 2010

Doctor Zhivago (1965)The Reel Thing XXV opens on Thursday, August 12th with a reception and a 4K digital projection screening of the new digital restoration of this classic David Lean film.

"A Love Caught in the Fire of Revolution" ... the winner of five Oscars, the film was banned in the Soviet Union. It was finally shown in Russia in 1994.

The Reel Thing XXV: August 12-14, 2010 at the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood. The two day technical symposium offers the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation. The Reel Thing brings together a unique line up of laboratory technicians, archivists, new media technologists and preservationists.

July 30, 2010

The Elections Committee has submitted the provisional slate of Candidates to the Board for the 2010 Board Election.You can find the provisional slate of candidates here:www.amianet.org/groups/committees/elections/2010/provisional_slate.php

If after viewing the provisional slate, any qualified AMIA member wishing to run for any open AMIA office may add their name to the list of candidates on the provisional ballot by the nomination by petition process.

All candidates must declare their intention to run through the nomination by petition process no later than August 6th and must submit their petitions no later than August 20, 2010.

For more information about the Nomination by Petition process, go to www.amianet.org/groups/committees/elections/2010/provisional_slate.php.

Candidate statements and ballot information will be sent to Members in late August.

July 18, 2010

The AMIA Preservation Committee is reinventing itself and we need your participation to make the committee a success. The first action item for the new co-chairs Kate Murray and Reto Kromer is to establish the committee membership roster. Next steps are to finalize our mission statement and then decide on tasks for the upcoming year. We have some exciting projects for both analog and digital preservation issues in mind but we need your skills and experience to get them off the ground.

All AMIA members are welcome to join the committee!

If you are an AMIA member and want to get actively involved in the new Preservation Committee, please send an email to Kate Murray (kate.murray1@nara.gov) and/or Reto Kromer (rk@reto.ch).

July 16, 2010

After over a year in the planning (they say that the best things in life are worth waiting for!), we (the AMIA Board of Directors and office staff) are pleased to announce the launch of the web-based AMIA discussion forum.You can find the forum and guidelines here:

I'm not going to repeat the stuff on the guidelines page, but I would just like to emphasise two points.

1.We are offering this as an additional facility to promote discussion and collaboration within the field, NOT as a replacement for this list or AMIA-L.Business as usual for both will continue.

2.Please do bear with me if your registration takes a day or two to be processed and activated.I will be on solo moderation duty over the opening weekend, and so if there's a deluge it might take a while to process what we anticipate will be the initial rush of registration requests.

If you have any comments about the way the board is set up, and/or technical queries related to its operation, please don't hesitate either to email me privately or to start a thread in the off-topic area of the forum itself.

We would also encourage you to forward this announcement to any other listserv, forum or individual(s) you feel may be interested.